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ttms georgetown herald wed neaday evening february 8th 139 page3 wahw vmm u trcd to tbnw before christ almost tver since the wind tens to blow mm bu had weevthwl vane there are records of vanes that go back to 100 b c urn date of the erection of trie tower of the winds af athena on the top of the tower is perched a triton and bis wantt as a weather vane in the early days writes alice rollins in the- ins angeles times the emblems selected had some bearing on the ownership of the buildings or the purposes for which they were to be used on towers castles and secular buildings a ban ner was the correct device while on barnyard fowl it is said that the cock as the emblem of clerical vig- jlanee had reference to the story ol saint peter the rules also stated that the coats of arms or crest of family should be incorporated v the design of the weather vane at a later date ecclesiastical buhdings bore the symbol of the patron saint in place of a weather vane the early settlers in america were not long in making and using weather vanes the first vane made in the colonies was a cock made by deacon shem drown for the new brick church in boston in 1721 this vane was blown down in the great gale of 1869 and was later set up at cambridge it is of note that this weather cock which stands more than five feet and is almost aa broad as it is long weighs almost 200 pounds deacon drown also made the grasshopper weather vane for panueil ball in 1742 newyorks first church in the fort had a weather cock and many metropolitan churches have weath er cocks as a distinguishing feature of their church architecture the bbtctn of omltiund oobtiaoad trom pag 1 we uunk wid be real to them in their to tbeaa tar distant future heneer educatlon endeavours to replace the intangible tuture attofctlone cfaarao- terleue of the old curricula witfa tan- gate problems to wttr the children jtfng all the energy and enttiuslaitt which youth glvas to play far play is the work of children just a work fs the play of men the new feature of modern education is the deliberate utilisation of the play at mosphere to develop these ageold principles without losing any of their forcetndeed gaining considerable force from their reality to visualise the effects of the trans- siberian witch doctors believe elephant la rat in the belief of the tungus witch doctors of siberia the giant pre historic elephant known as the mammoth exists as a huge burrow ing rat whose death is certain the moment he sees the sun states a curator of physical anthropology at field museum of natural history in the field jwuseumnewb other siberian natives believe that earth quakes are caused by these gigantic rats tunneling at high speed just below the surface of the ground on exhibition in the division of paleontology at field museum is a complete skeleton of a mammoth and a large mural painting repre senting it as it appeared in life and in the hall of the stone age are carvings on mammoth ivory by pre historic men necklaces of mam moth ivory beads and a superb pair of mammoth tusks from the lena river siberia the mammoth which roamed cover europe in pleistocene times became extinct more than a hun dred centuries before the birth of christ the story states prehis toric man hunted and trapped this huge animal for food- made beads oft his ivory tusks and tools of his long bones on smooth pieces of bone too he engraved with tools of flint symbolic drawings of mag- fatal and religious significance i the nine moses the muses were according to the classic mythology the nine daugh ters of zeus and mnemosyne orig inally they were goddesses of mem- cry only but they came later to be identified with individual arts and sciences the nine with their re- a spectlwe attributes were calliope presiding over eloquence and heroic poetry chief of the muses clio muse f heroic exploits and history isujarpe presiding over music thalia gayety pastoral life and comedy melpomene song har mony sad tragedy terpsichore choral dance ssd song erato the lyre and ero poetry polyhymnia i oratory and the sacred lyric tjrania celestial phenomena and as comiag af the punch bowl the punch bowl succeeded the bowl of wassail which was the night- lyritual of the saxon warriors in carry england it was thek custom to drink from a brimming bowl passed from hand to hand with the salutation wes hal tourbealth later that wassail bowl was used at great feasts only ah saints day twelfth night and especially at ytuetide when filled to the brim ft was passed from the lord at the head of the table to the wandering ininstrels at the foot bbsg alfred a bible student king alfred the great was a translator of the bible for k was ids ambition that all the fretbom youth of bis kingdom should employ themselves on nothing till they could first read wall 4ha english scripture king alfred died wnba tavkmg on a translation of the psalms about that time too arch- btehop aelfric translated parts of the bible into anglosaxon ferh j- t the real let us revive our memories of a senior third classroom and carry those memories into a grade six of today back in the senior third you probably began your day the cost of a sufstrand wire fence around- a tenacre field forty rods long with posts placed every sixteen and a hall feet ttien perhaps you went on to oral reading of the white ship after an in terra of arms bend arms upward stretch you were many pages in history text and told to write a note on the three voyages of cartter after lunch you looked up the meanings of the hard words in nan at the window binding e and followed this by writing a composition on one of the follow ing subjects then perhaps you turned to your memorisation of the counties of ontario with their coun ty towns and if your preparation proved futile resigned yourself to the inevitable detention now all these things were valuable if only xttr the stiffening it gave our moral fibre to tackle them without out wardly visible rebellion but our ef fort lacking interest to spur it was just enough to enable us to get through the assignment and put it from our minds when four oclock came we escaped joyously from the overburden or abstraction in todays grade six there are tony number who will have to be told three or four times that it is time to go home that the janitor is waiting to sweep up this is of course no new situation to the many teachers who have skilfully managed their classes with a certain amount or academic freedom from regula tions but it is new to the majority who followed the rigid assemblyline system but lets step into the classroom 1 it is not as quiet as the one we re member here the teacher has chos en to build a unit of work about a topic m the social studies cortea and the class is in the throes of making cortes relive they have chosen as their medium of expres sion a fist puppet show in one cor ner a group is doing arithmetic- building the puppetshow stage hav ing made their drawings measured and worked the lumber salvaged from narking cases they are now putting it togettier so that it will fit on top of the teachers table two of them are having a rather strenuous argu ment about a corner joint which threatens to come loose each time the stage is moved they appeal to the teacher who sends them to the cup board to observe bow the joints there are fitted in another comer sever al are mixing com starch and sail according to a recipe and moulding puppet heads from the material we see two who havenx been very exact in then measurements one with a oangfa too sticky another with one too crumbly some others are well on their waft shaping heads of cortes mtonteeuaav indians spaniard horses ate using picture book as their gtades to tte features itt the hookjbeh comer others are looking through books old geographies en- oyctapsedlas etc for information about the costumes they are making they have bits of lace plumes vel vet and leather much they have ve- scued from some rag bag still others are composing dialogue dividing the cortes story into episodes suitable for the show searching for direct quota tions they can use even asking for a spanish dictionary at the public library another group has several geographies spread out and are paint ing mexican and spanish scenes for back drops for the stage fashioning carts temples and other properties from cardboard day or so later we would the group efforts being adjusted to fit together a worrisome tune of give and take- perhaps some of the puppets are too big for the stage or that bothersome joint is still giving way or there isnt enough room for five puppets at once and dialogue must be revised or that treasure of treasures the big plume for cortes hat must be discarded because the audience cant see montesui the horses or even the temples past it still a few days later and every thing or almost everything is ad- justed there are still plenty of crudities but the show is ready to go on the teachers object has al ready been achieved they have tak- enormous doses of aiithemtlc geography history reading com position- voice training art crafts and tackled their real problems with persistence honesty of effort co operation reliance and their goaupf satisfaction is at hand the chief criticism of this trend is based upon the fact that life is not merely a round of pleasure there are many disagreeable situations to be faced and many thankless tasks to do do no such problems occur hi the play situation outlined above indeed yes for there as everywhere else somebody has to do the dirty work someone has to clean out the paste pots someone has to relinquish a cherished desire to use the beauti ful plume someone has to laborious ly eradicate the aint from mon tezumas conversation someone has to keep on struggling with that mffec tive joint the wise teacher seizes upon these enviable opportunities for developing in the pupils tho sense of obligation which must fall upon and all if things are to run smoothly in the school world nothing is more expressive of this changed attitude than the atmes phere of the modem school have you been in che lately7 go if you have not and search in rain tor that rigid imposed discipline under which the children became automatons fix ed in rows of meed assets all hands behind the backs awaiting a list of facts enunciated by the teacher re peated in unison copied in notes committed to memory regurgitated on examination papers narked halfpoint values noted on report cards ranked in order of standing regardless of effort or ability and promoted only if they fitted the pro crustean requirements laid down alike for e community in the province did we really expect the thoughtful selfcontrol of democracy to be thus produced the modern school seeks not to have its dtlsens do as they are told thoughtlessly but rattier to do as they ought after weighting the circumstances if de mocracy is to survive therein lies its hope of course there are always rebels the selfish the petulant the abowon what happens to them it would do you good to see the weight of youth ful condemroatlon fan upon the child who interferes with the smooth com- ptetlon of a unit of work upon which the children have concentrated for no longer is auatfan inte diversion from a tiresome piece of drudgery but a theft of tune and ef fort from something in which the majorityhas put a tremendous ef fort it has become an unforgivable crime like deliberately breaking the only bat when the score is tied and the bases full despite this force of group discipline there are as there are in adult life times when the teacher as representative of law and order must step in to weigh and httlffg dlftwynff a more difficult problem is that presented by the shy the uncertain and the handicapped can they he brought to the fulness of the joy of something well done of course they can the teacher who is a man or a woman first and a teacher by profession can now in the freer at- mosphereso dispose the problems and the groups of pupils that every one can be given the opportunity and the necessity pf accomplishment a magic cure for lack of selfreliance with the first small success comes the realization i can excel lighting the hard road ahead with the know ledge that the will to do is the chief factor in progress how this will to do has developed 1 instead of memorizing facts from one text book the children indrriduany or collectively gather materials from every source their imagination sug gests binding it together in an under standing to be found in no book it must be confessed that this tendency has put a tremendous strain upon teachers parents librarians trades men and agencies of all sorts which have been overwhelmed by demands for material it really is the business of the schools to meet this demand with the aid of the public libraries but school and library budgets are not easily expanded to supply the need immediately and wisely so for the sources must be built up gradu ally and with considerable reflection upon the value obtained for the money the great danger of the deficiency is not the deficiency itself for child ren can and do make silk purses from sows ears but that illadvised teachers and parents may attempt to dp the childs work for him course it is but natural that in their anxiety for his success teachers and parents do not allow the child face his own problem reach his own solution and stand and fall by them let us not fall to appreciate that success comes only through re peated failure it takes thoroughly tough going to produce stamina of will steadiness of purpose and true pride of achievement how often when you look at time toeperfect exhibitions of work supposedly the sole effort of school children do you wonder how much real education was denied those children by some well- meaning busybody ohlld- ttoe school of today is centred school of life not pose a place where children do tuey please but a place where the timetried principles of philosophy are presented in the childs world a world of vivid reality with au fee equalities and lrieaualrttas the joys and the sorrows the successes and the faihum yea even the justice and me injustice of that grownup world toward which they climb bulk pttoduckhs scttjbns the ontario dairy farm manage ment and milk cost study reveals striking variations in the- net re turn secured by milk producer from their businesb studies of a similar nat in ftttift tg nuntm of 5 waxed turnips fl lb washed parsnips j j washed carrots tabu quality tomatoes 2 zt 23 lemons q 3j 1ft jtv oranges 2dozxm q9 lettuce tees grapefruit 6 17c cabbage una he s spin ac ml egg potatoes m 23c pfc hartmk fmdfosm heap 1 chocolate i indian i by fr0c l mer i havb job a boy fee or a girl boost in your bona s so they are sura to be off over the bins and fas away these fine winter week- ends and that to be woe betide yo if yon fail te tack in amid the mora solid fare sweevjutoptlu canada and in other countries have at other times shown similar wide differences in the farm business re turns as in urban business somi farmers do weu while others have great difficulty m accumulating sum- dent net revenue to maintain living standards the operator labour earnings is the term used in this study to express the return to the farm operator for his labour and management after de ducting from receipts all general ex penses interest an capital values a per cent and wages for all mem bers of the farm operators family for such farm work as they do cept the farm manager himself ttie highest operator labour earnings for the year ending june 30 1937 amongst 460 shippers of milk to fluid markets was 5511 and the low est minus 179 the variation in operator labour earnings between these two farms was more than 70w while one cannot with accuracy gauge farming by the net returns in any one yearjjf operations this wide variation in net returns is a charac teristic which has been revealed by all almlarfitudle5 of any competitive business there are several factors which are responsible for the great difference in net income as between farms some of these factors come within and some are beyond the con trol of the farmer such as weather and prices a fanner may suffer a reverse in progress due to unfavour able conditions of weather in any one year but over a period of years he may learn through experience the kind of weather to expect and can make adjustments in the business ac cordingly unusual conditions of weather do noroccur annually the hazards of prices too can be over come in a large measure by careful stmdy it is true lhe farmers esti mate of prices may be incorrect for a period but careful study of price information will assist greatly hurdling such handicaps appealer for this wlndap to the hikers meal nothing is better than a chocolate indian except two chocolate indians chocolate indiana cup sifted cake flour tt tea spoon doubleactlng baking powder k teaspoon salt cap butter or other shortening x squares un sweetened chocolate quilted 1 cup sugar 3 eggs well beaten cup finely cut dates m cup chopped walnut meats toasted 1 teaspoon vanilla sift flour once measure add baking powder and salt and atft rgnii add butter to chocolate and bl d add gradually sugar ta eg r beating thoroughly fc then chocolato mixture and blend add flour and mix well then dates nuts and vanilla bake hi twef greased pans 8x8x2 inches la moderate oven 350 f 36 minutes cut in squares before removing from pan makes 4 dozen indiana fabaeeb conventions the following conventions are scheduled for late in february at the king edward hotel toronto february 21 ontario plowmen association february 22 ontario field crop and seed growers assn february 22 class b fairs as sociation february 23 and 24 ontario as sociation of agricultural a good salesman a store keeper was bragging about the efficiency of his salesman said a woman who had just lost her hus band came in to buy a suit of clothes to lay him out in the sales man not only sold her the very best suit 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